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Facts Presented by a Citizen of the United States, Born at Watervleit 
Arsenal, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Honor of the United States, About Which, as His Own Is a Part 
of It, He Instructs Them, For Himself, Not to Quibble Nor Allow 
His Share Thereof to Be Lost. 

San Francisco, in response to appeals has in times of her disas- 
ters and exhibitions, had larger gifts quickly sent to her from all of 
the nations and states, than any other city. 

San Francisco representatives in the California Legislature have 
stood in opposition to aid being sent in one state (her own) to orange 
growers within the southern half of that state when one year's frost 
(such as was there a novelty) in one night did damage that caused 
to be given to the book: "PEOPLE (thither coming out of a region 
wherein disasters are met as if they were a jest) WHOM YOU MAY 
MEET AT THE FAIR" its title, as wide as did her own great earth- 
quake, in recoupment for the damage of which there was poured into 
her (no nation in the world discriminating) wealth out of the whole 
of it. 

San Francisco legislators from all of the aliens who thus helped 
her have since sought to take away privileges that, within the city 
into which their money was poured, they desired to have reserved 
for themselves. 

From the nations whose money came in great volumes to enable 
them to rebuild their city many of San Francisco's citizens now 
desire to withhold the canal's use upon those equal terms for which 
its word of honor for the whole country has been given. These San 
Franciscans invite the people whose money without discrimination 
they have accepted to come and under the roofs of the city dwell, 
and celebrate the completion of a canal the right to tise which those 
spoken of as guests they desire not to permit to have, on the terms 
that the hosts reserve for themselves, yet which they invite the 
guests to come and help them to celebrate. 

Robertsons and Elders, the fashionable book dealers of the city, 
say that they have not, and the White House does not say whether 
or not it has room for this pamphlet; within which at once, by those 
who possess the faith or friendship, that can alone lead to the dis- 
cernment of any great matter, there will be found the concluding 
expression of a gift, long ago made to mankind, of a value greater 
than all canals that have been built, and beyond that of all exposi- 
tions, that signs placed high up or agents sent abroad, have invited 
"the world" to come to. 

The conduct, therefore, of San Francisco, set out above, has been 
to her a disaster greater than any that could be the consequence of 
another earthquake lasting even longer than did the great one of 
1906. 

ADAIR WELCKER 



PREFACE 

Since this book was printed the Oregon Rationalist Society has set forth, 
through the Oregonian, a proposal that, in an auditorium that the Society will pay 
for, by the representatives of designated classes, questions in it set forth, shall 
be debated. 

Historical evidence may not, of the existence or external life lived by the man 
that they name, or of that of any man whose soul, while he dwells upon the 
earth, has been caused to ascend to its apogee, within the world be left. This 
is a matter consequent upon the existence of rationalism that has risen within 
the universe up to a point where it does not need longer to debate. For this 
rationalism purposely permits the man who, for a lifetime has all of the world 
served in the face of ingratitude, from those that should have been the last to 
show it, who did not even in return look pleasant — by history to become for- 
gotten. But the deeds of any man, that have moved a whole race forward in the 
face of a continent-wide ingratitude, this rationalism is not ever going to permit 
the memory of the race to lose, until every other man has had the opportunity 
also to perform the deeds that he did. For then may the man who has done 
them obtain knowledjie, in regard to the other, of what history has had taken out 
of it the power to retain. Others may never have known him. For perfect 
rationalism allows not any great man to be seen as great as he was or to become 
understood, except by another who, through having done what he did, has ac- 
quired the capacity to believe in him as he is. Otiiers may know him not. They 
perceive instead only their own mental ghost — concocted out of a puerile con- 
ception of the vast human strength that can stand up within the garments, created 
out of his thoughts, constituting the soul about his spiiit, and of flesh, for which 
their many views have been casting lots— a man. Therefore highest rationalism, 
in order that no man shall be left to worship any puerile conception that, by the 
mind that debates about matters insignificant, can be created, has ordained that 
deeds of service shall alone upon the earth be correctly and pernianently re- 
membered. 

Though any man who has served the whole world will care little whether others 
believe that he has existed, so long as they do what he did; yet, correctly can it 
be believed that he has existed, because of, and for his work's sake. Little, too 
will he care whether the world believes that, during the course of hours, he was 
crucified upon a framework of wood, or instead, that the dog star has, because of 
the prolonged ingratitude of those who, of all should have been the first to wel- 
come his deeds, through the vibration of its beams become able, into his 
soul to enter the iron: able, through their activity, to pierce through feet that, for 
the world have walked; through hands that have fed — that the beams of the dog 
star have bitten. 

ADAIR WELCKER 



How a Dead Man was Drawn from his Tomb 
ahd Back Again to Life 



Copyrij^lit 1914 by Adair Welcker 

The man who has answered the question of the Sphinx will have 
learned wliat thinjjs arc in man. Having for three days been in hell 
and then having ascended to heaven, he will have learned what death 
is. He will through liaving been dead, have obtained, — as in no other way 
a man can, — knowledge of what will then have been proved to him to 
be an absolute certainty; knowledge that, for any man there can be 
eternal life. He will have learned that, wherever there is force, there 
is life; and that, throughout the universe, constituting the original cause 
of all of its manifestations, there is one that is the original and only 
force. The man will Iiavc been shown tliat this one force, wliencver it 
is passing through forms, ceases to sleep; being on account of the 
nature of its process of passing through them, out of sleep awakened. 
He will have seen that that awakening of this force, caused by its 
having passed through ft^rms. becomes intellingcnce. This man, look- 
ing back upon death, tlirough which he has had the hardihood to be 
willing to undertake to go, and to dare to pass, will have seen this 
one force has two ways whereby, through forms, it acts. One of 
these, as he will have discovered, is towards larger and more abund- 
ant life: the life throughout the universe that can be. when indicating 
it by the human word courage, as nearly as may be, referred to: 
which, whenever it thorugh forms operates, causes the universe at 
that point, to think. This operation of the force will have to be 
imperfectly referred to tlirough the use of words. But hardly can they 
touch that which is meant. They cannot show what is meant when it 
is said that the manifestations of this force are constantly changing 
at the time that its process is that of passing through one form after 
another every one of which is, than the one that preceded it, — greater. 
A vision of what electricity actually is, could express this. So could 
comprehension that tlie emotions of the human race are the cause of 
plant life; and what arc the various effects of different human emotions, 
upon them, as well as its chief one. The otlier of the two operations 
of this one force produces its Jiianifestations, that arise from having 
passed through forms, every one of which is than the one that preceded 
it, — less. The first process is the one that creates what is. among men, 
called life. The second is tlie one that conveys any living thing di- 
rectly to that state and conditions tliat is called death. 

To be brave enough to be constantly changing old iiglits for new is 
to walk along the way that ieaiis to that which can more abundantly 
give to any man life. To allow the ff>rce oi)erating within him to 
work long, without change, through any of the unchanging forms that 
the daily affairs of some men creates, or through those forms that the 
processes of some of their larger schools will have put about them, will 
eventually be, for the man to become so stiff-necked, that the struggle 
on the part of this force to get (nit of, and awav from those forms, can 
cause tlie fixed and set man's neck physically to become suddenly 
limber: — to have become, for a time. — as it will seem to him,— broken 
Sucli a man, if lie eventually is to recover, first for a long time will 
have to walk about in the world with the connection between his head 
and his shoulders unable. — as he will have many times to believe, — -to 
longer support for any great length of time the state, following its 
agony, into which tlic soul that had once given to his body firmness, 
will have fallen. That "1" that such a man so constantly before, with 
liride. will have made use of. — will he, if back to his body there is to 
come, from his soul, a strength that is new. — with a marked degree 
of caution thereafter make use of. 

The man who has been brought to stand where something, tiiat is 
in every man, can behold all inner things, in action, will have been made 
aware that each man who would obtain more life must gain, above all 
things, at first courage. That in order himself greatly to live, those 
forms that he uses, through which into himself the force moves, must 



not be allowed to become stereotj'ped; or become about his soul a 
prisoner's shackles ,or a slave's locked bindings. Quicker from such 
forms, hardening about him, should he flee, than from a city down upon 
which molten lava is flowing. The work done by the man who would 
the truth discover, and by it be set free, must be to escape from the 
place where those forms are a city; one dying from its obverse ex- 
pression of the one vast unity; and from it escape, and somewhere get 
away from it, where there will be greater change: — variety. The man 
of daring will ever have to be passing, from any set of forms, — away; 
and if possible to some other place, into which no man has put 
weakness, by giving to it a name by which it has begun _ to become 
fixed. Rapidly, if possible, from every place that is beginning to take 
upon it that, which is age, away and into some unknown country, 
into which no man has before gone, should he, with all who are his, 
move. For from variety to variety, must the passage of that life be 
that is to increase: and, by the variety of matters lived among, grow 
to a capacity large enough to take into it, in consequence of the af- 
fection that it for them has had, the power that all of the things of 
the earth have in them; until, seeking always to find the good that is 
in every condition of life, such a man can know that, only from the 
everlasting; (whose eternitv itself is such, only for this: that it 
has been compounded out of a variety that is infinite), down through 
his understanding, into him, can there pass' that tremendous com- 
prehension that will lift him up and beyond all knowledge that, 
canned and labeled, has been put away upon shelves that are en- 
dowed to hold all antiquated, technically expressed, formulated 
utterance. 

Words can, of course .hardly touch matters in regard to which 
the Sphinx has so long been asking many, — and one question. To 
put even a reference to what is being pointed to, into the technical 
and formulated language of science, would be merely to cause the 
spirit of such an utterance from the letter of the forms, (from those 
traps that scientists, so-called, set to catch the birds of the mind), at 
once to flee away. 

There once upon a time was in the U. S. a handsome boy of the 
age of twelve years wdio, as he walked in a forest that was back of 
his father's farm, from the brooks running under the trees and the 
ponds; from the trees, as well, and their inhabitants; had had put into 
his head thoughts that caused his elders, with questioning looks to 
watch him, whenever the thoughts that in the forest he had obtained, 
he uttered. At this age, all things that; in such wanderings he found, 
he took to, and shared with his companions. 

There was, once upon a time, a youth, some of whose dreams as 
the years passed, he for others exchanged; and moved by the spirit 
that was working through those of another kind, he was led away, to 
go to a distant and great city. In the youth's face there remained not 
so much light as in the face of the boy there had been. 

There once ui)on a time was, in the U. S., a man whose eyes had 
gradually, with each passing year, grown to look as if they had be- 
come colder and harder. The boy, the youth, the man, people in- 
exactly speaking, ordinarily would have spoken of as the same. The 
soul of each was the same, but, (to try to express what words may 
not), within each, as the body had become older, the soul had been 
caused to go from it, farther back. 

The grown man had, after reaching manhood, succeeded in ac- 
(|uiring a vast number of things; and, at the time to which rhis 
writing relates, had great possessions. Upon him, on account of his 
great wealth, there had been conferred, (in the land where large 
numbers believe that there can be a brain-created democracy outside, 
before the real one of the heart has been established within), the title 
of "General." The name belonging to him, (which followed the title 
so conferred, that did not), was Woodburn, He was a man of sixty- 
five years of age. At the time referred to this man's body might, by 
one who had looked only upon the surface of the great pyramid, 
have seemed, from the neck to the waist, to bear some kind of re- 
semblance to it. Such a thought might have arisen out of the fact 
that, connected with each of these bodies, there was something held 
by them in common, of which each was significant. Of what that 



was. any tourist, — in so far as the world's literature has informcrl us, — 
seems not ever to have known. Death is that, of which what was 
material in each of these bodies was si'^^nillcant. 

Ciencral Woodl)urn at this time had become, and vvas the owner of 
l)lantations larj^er than are some of the countys of some of the 
American states. He owned, in various states, a sufficient amount of 
stock in ^JitTerent banks to control them, lie had money on deposit 
in others that formed a line that stretclied across a continent. Ships 
on seas and lakes he possessed, that carried cargoes between many 
ports. And, because of the fact that this man, (to whom the gen- 
erous boy, that he once had been, had, to his altered nature, be- 
come a stranger), out of the operations of his Imancial machinery, of 
which these possessions were a part, day l^y day took, (sometimes to 
himself consciously; sometimes not), from orphans and widows their 
little, to add it to his much, thereby of that much to make much 
more; (the losers, being before the juggernaut advance of his much, 
helpless, the forms that had become established about him, through 
which he worked, were all of the time building up about, and for his 
soul, its |)anopticon. And as its walls kept i)rcssing ever harder in- 
ward; as their thickness and compactness day after day was added to; 
the soul within began at last to cry out and, at first, to its body, that 
had lost all of the cai)acity that it had once had to hear it. It can be 
said that, in one waj% it at last begged and imi^lored the walls, that 
ought to have had ears. — of its body not. by their growing pressure 
upon it. to add to its almost unbearable torment. (Otherwise quickly 
would (as the soul knew) the time arrive when it would be authorized 
by the one whose eye looks ever down upon every bastile to shake 
down, and destroy its own body in order that, by the mind of that 
body, tliat would not hear, the soul itself should not be caused to 
perish. Rut the forms that had been brought about it had in such 
a way affected the body that, of all that its soul was saying, it would 
and could hear, now not anytliing. So liad the man's brain, through 
the forms through which his work had been done, been sliapcd, that 
the soul, by the use of it's language, (as, in the case of some men. to 
the extent of expressing a warning. — it may), had. into it, not been able 
to penetrate, to speak. Seeing the life that the body of the man was 
being induced, by his brain to live, the soul well knew that certain 
ffirms. which were being added to others, that the man already used, 
would, after they had been added, cause it to become as impossible, 
for it to remain within, and use that body (even though, without it, it 
had not another instrument through which to accomplish what 
ought to have been its destiny), as it would be for a camel to pass 
through the eye of a needle. 

Wtirds, (although a renowned writer has said that they were) have 
not been invented to conceal thought. Neither were they invented as a 
means through which to withhold from men facts. Rut, there is 
knowledge to which some man will, whenever a whole generation is 
about, from the earth to depart, attain. Such knowledge the majority 
of the jjundits of those among the great schools that are most un- 
willing to have ears at all for the unformulated things that are new, 
denoimce as "Charlatanism." "Rut that knowledge, of which the one 
called "Charlatan" has had the kind of vision that does not err, (but 
which words then existing, cannot exjiress). has made of him a host, at 
whose .Lrreat table of wisdom will the sons of those who denounce 
him, and their institutions for centuries afterwards feed; although he, 
whom in theory they claim to remember, woud, if he came to take 
a seat at his own table there find manj^ who, against him would cry 
out, — as-erting that one, having such an ajipearance, they do not 
know, and that, from such a table any one who wore a garb so modern 
as was his. ought to be driven. 

Such children of the kingdom of greater wisdom, who had brought 
down out of heaven bread, that myriads of institutions would after- 
wards be endowed, by some who would have abhorred those who had 
been the causes of them, to study their work, could alwaj'S have 
turned to those who denounced them as "cpiacks" and have said: "You 
study the lexicon in which are words, and tlie letters out of which such 
words are formed. There is another book, that, as its words are not 
from the letter that kills, but out of the deeds that create life. — lives 



To that greater book, any man can go, and from it learn, — as any man 
can, by doing the things that are there set down to be done, — 
whether I am, as you say, but know not how to determine, a 
'Charlatan,' or not. For the language of the book, to those who will 
do what will enable them to read it, is not vague, and in it is tliere not 
any error at all". True, — as to some of the knowledge in it, — is it 
for all who are not willing to do the things that will enable them to know 
it, that, for them, the words of one of the sages of China are correct: 
"They who know, do not tell; they who tell, do not know". Better 
would it have been to have said, — of "They who know," this: They 
who know, would tell if in any earthly dictionary, language, 
that might help them, they could find. But knowledge comes 
first; not language; and language to express it has to be created, 
after it has come. For there is no royal road, either for king or 
scholar, or for a man illiterate, to learning But the illiterate man 
who will perform the deed, from which the scholar will, wanting 
courage to undertake it, shrink, can acquire knowledge to which all of 
the endowed mechanical apparatus furnished to aid the other will not 
ever be able to convey him. Therefore is it open to any man having 
sufficient courage, through doing, (without being dependent upon any 
other for help, or being upon his formulated language dependent), 
to learn. Along the pathway that through trackless spaces their deeds 
will for them make, alone must they proceed, through their courage 
correctly led to believe that they, across the surface of the inner 
waters, are moving along the line upon which the truth, — that will 
love them for the cause that they have themselves many things, loved 
mucli, — will be at the same time towards them coming. Setting at 
last, as its consummation, the soul free from all of its bonds, because of 
its deeds, — will it have become free, indeed. Having taken away from 
the soul need any longer to remain in solitary confinement; back once 
more, even through its body, to its ears will there have come oppor- 
tunity through the one universal language, that eventually will be- 
tween all of the worlds be spoken, from worlds other than this, to 
obtain information. To the soul's eyes that so long have been pre- 
vented from seeing beyond the body's dark, will a more perfect sight 
come, that will enable it, from every one of the worlds to catch their 
varying lights. Thereafter will all men cease to make futile efforts, by 
rules that will be binding in the external world, to regulate the con- 
duct of others; or, in that mistaken way, try to bring to them that 
which can become their freedom. For, before their freedom can 
come; first must all men be set free from the prolonged death rattle 
of "MY" and MINE" and,— regardless of others,— "I". For, the 
views (that are as much property as is any other kind of it), that 
those who externally reform speak of as their own can. if they are not 
ready at the moment that they learn what is true immediately to drop 
them, bring to their bodies their own death rattle, or even cause the 
soul that is within them to perish. 

"MINE" and "MY" and "I" were the expressions, passing from 
within him outward, in regard to his large possessions, that were almost 
continuously upon the lips of "General" Woodburn. Although it was 
in no sense as a reformer that he spoke, such words can have, if too 
continuously used, upon all men in the world an effect that will be 
])ronounced: and of longer duration than any drug, from without, that 
the man could have taken into himself. For not only do those words 
cause the soul in a way of its own to reel; but they, since they into 
it could not go, upward by it had thev to be thrown, — and out. This, 
did the forces of nature that, through entering into forms acquire in- 
telligence, perceive. But, (in that differing from the envious, among 
his fellows), against such a man do not those forces rail, any more 
than would a discerning sober man, against a drunkard, who had been 
made drunk. Forces that have been clothed upon, and had put about 
them garments ever changing and deathless, have a kindlier thought. 
So, when they see a man putting himself to death through a form of 
intoxication, (with which that produced after drink may not compare), 
they wish only, — if such a thing may be, — to save for him his soul 
which, otherwise his deeds will have lost. Their natures, that have 
become as well rounded as can become a soul that is unselfish and kind, 
perceive that the riches of many rich men have often been, (just as 



envy upon the part of others also has been), thrust upon them. By 
such forces is it known that sucli men have heen cau^Iit in a net many 
times harder to escape from tlian tlie net that was cast in the arena 
of Rome about the body of the gladiator. They perceive that it is 
often not easier for the man ownine: possessions, that stretch across a 
continent, to dispose of them (|uickly, than it would be for a beggar to 
go and ste^l the money with which to buy them. So slight is such an 
ownershi]) observed to be, that an investigation called for by the owner, 
that would e.vtend over a life time, could not accurately inform him 
even of what was occurring in conection witli the greater part of all 
that he had the privilege (if it is such), of calling his. 

So, at the bogus "General" such forces did not any more rail than 
they would have done at other owners, much more admirable than he, 
of millions of money. Of course his possessions compelled him to 
have to; but these forces saw also other reasons why he perpetually 
was saying "MfNIv' and "MV" and so constantly "I". Hundreds of 
men, brought into contact with him, who had n(jt tiic nobler form of 
perception that would have seen wealth to be in other matters, placed 
it in material possessions. As every low order of imagination places, 
upnii the highest pinacle to which it is able to reacli, that of which 
it has tliought as being of greatest value as its god. tliey had bowed 
down before him, (as being that which he owned); and before it. 
through him, they crooked their knees as basely as other men have 
done before other potentates. — or any whose positions that are sig- 
nificant of other material forms of wealth. Therefore, saw these intelli- 
gent forces tliat. less responsible was he himself, than were those who 
cringed before this Captain (who owned industries), for the desease that 
gradually was putting his soul, as well as his body to death. Looking 
down upon the boyhood that had been pressed back from him. but had 
not yet gone wholly away and apart from his soul; looking upon youth 
who had stood half way between the boy and the man; they saw that 
there was something in him yet that could be saved. So they de- 
termined that they would save it. At the time of the severance of the 
soul from the body, would be their opportunity to do this. At what 
moment that severance was to occur, out of what is yet to be described, 
they could calculate. 

The man upon whom, by many of its newspapers and magazines 
there had been conferred tiie title that in their land is more formidable 
than that of Duke or Karl or Marcpiis. in the majority- of the countries 
that are older; a title that, in his land, is more envied by many called 
democrats than are the other title's, by the democrats of other lands. — 
"Captain of Industry". — was one day seated in his residence. It was 
one, compared with which many palaces of other countries may not be. 
To himself he was saying: "What have I not accomplished! T liave 
I'inished a great building and tomorrow, from ground to roof I will have 
it stored with abundant wealth. Then will I go to Paris and to Rome; 
and nowhere will T walk. Rut, always, in the most expensive con- 
veyances, will I ride. And all of the most costly things, that the people 
of those countries desire least to part with, will I buy. I, — " 

At this moment a maid entering, handed him a card. Of the 
coming of the card he could not have said "It was T that brought it; I 
caused it to come; 1." No. For not he, but the discerning; the intelli- 
gent; the designing forces of nature had enabled the card to be 
brought. As the Captain of Industry held it in it, — his hand trembled. 
From his check tied away a portion of its life. Upon it. the color left 
was that of a corpse. He rang a bell, and a glass of water that was 
brought, when swallowed, revived him. But, upon his brow rested drops 
of sweat that, to those forces of nature, that were intelligent, foretold 
for him an agony not far away, — to come. Why. of it was the card that 
had come to him significant, could not any eartlily physician have told. 
For. although homeopathic physicians say that their system is, because 
it has announced some causes and their common effects, a science, the 
older system is not. neither one of them seems to know from what 
source are the causes of deseases; nor that, if those be but first re- 
moved, no mental treatments, either absent or present; no use of 
drugs, will any more be needed on earth. Xor seems any practitioner 
to have discerned that, if sucii causes be not removed, it ought to be 



to the sufferer a matter indifferent whether upon the body there be an 
external appearance of health, or not. 

The man who had sent to "General" Woodburn his card had gone 
away after having been told that he could not see liim. But, by his 
proximity to him, because of the character of the wrong that "General" 
Woodburn had done him, forth from the man and to him had gone 
something, than the consequences of which not any, of any deadly drugs, 
could be more certain; though of it neither of those men knew. 

"By the way" the next day a visitor said, in the office of "General" 
Woodburn to him; "I've heard that you've determined to fire Burroughs, 
the captain of our ship Tasmania". "Not determined. I've already done 
it. After I've made up my mind to do a thing nothing is postponed. 
It's done. You know my rule. The man had reached forty. He there- 
fore is no longer in my employment". "But, you've always had good 
luck with Burroughs," the other responded. "He has never had one 
single mishap". "He is over forty, I said. I work out my rules; and 
after they have been worked out to my satisfaction, they go into prac- 
tice." "But, even after that", — "There is no after that." "You know, 
as well as I do", his companion continued, "that, because of the money 
expended upon surgeons for his bed-ridden boy", — "Of such matters I 
undertake to know nothing; have not the time to go any more into one, 
than into a hundred, that immediately, if I considered one, would crop 
up." "But said liis companion, "I'm a stockholder in the company", — 
"The answer to that" said the General, "is: Get yourself voted into my 
place and run it." The man talked of the daughter of Burroughs, who 
had consumption, and had to be sent west. Seeing finally that the other 
was not to be moved, he took up his hat and departed. Twice after- 
wards, during the d^y, "General Woodburn repeated the rule which he 
had established, that prevented the employment of men after forty. The 
matter was the last time referred to that afternoon, when he stood, 
with his hands on the open door of his automobile, about to enter it 
and start for his home. He was saying to an acquaintance: "Dollar 
for dollar, a man over forty don't give the same return, in energy ex- 
changed for it, that the younger man does." "But there is something 
besides", — "There is nothing besides."' "Yes sir", said a man who had 
been drinking, who had previously stood some feet away listening, 
"There is". He then stood, without at once saying anything further, 
vmsteadily upon his feet, while with a questioning expression he gazed 
upon the countenance of the Captain of Industry. "You say" he then 
continued, "that you are not going to employ any more people after 
they get to forty. You think that's aH. No Sir. You are about to deal 
with one; over fortj', in a way that you never did deal with any other 
in all your life before." The man, to whom he was a stranger, and who 
was wholly unknown to the "General" had, as drunken men sometimes 
do, seen something that the soberest of a man's friends do not see; 
that drunken men sometimes can, and as soon as they do generally 
forget that they have seen. 

This time the countenance of General Woodburn did not turn gray. 
He may possibly have suspected that the drunken man had referred to 
any one of a hundred occurrences; and then, mentally, he may have 
asked: "But, what is a drunken man?" and in the woods an echo might 
have repeated: "is a drunken man!" And, after all, what is a drunken 
man, — and why? Exists there an institution that either makes use of 
or discusses wine; that can answer the question that some day a differ- 
ent kind of echo may, in many places be asking 

And all of the time surgical forces of nature about this man, whose 
set rules he had been believing nothing could loosen, were continuing, — 
(as about his soul, his body previously had done), — closer to gather. 

Nature's intelligent forces, with pens dipped in that fire of which, — 
as well as of death, the pyramid of Cheops is significant, upon the walls 
of this man's body with that fire, that gave out an odor as the pens 
moved, wrote. He knew that these words would, when speaking, — (as 
words that inspeak as well, as those that speak out, sometimes may) — 
cause him slightly to change the direction in which he had, until then, 
travelled. They would cause him to hear things, that would, after a 
while sound much louder than the voices that were becoming, day after 
day, feebler. So feeble had his utterances grown that he continued to 
mutter only, "MY" and "MINE" and alwavs and unceasingly "I". "I", 



(lid he continue to repeat, almost nntil about him, the hands of other 
men were wrappinj"- the cerements of the body to be laid away. And 
about him and over him there came to be closed his tomb. But before 
this, and close to the time of the winter solstice, had the intelligent 
forces caused, within his nostrils, the odor of suli)hur ttj be. At the 
moment that the sun was fartherest south, the centers of his palms had 
they pierced* Upon the evening before that, they had caused him to 
stand before the setting sun, that was surrounded by wdiile the whole 
heavens were overspread with clouds, rose colored anrl purple and 
.gulden, and within himself this c|uestion of the great sun to ask. "Oh 
wonderful cause of all the external beauty for men that tliere is, am I 
ever again, — or tomorrow- with you to rise? Am I never, after this 
night, with these physical eyes, upon you again, to look? For, as I 
now have been shown, the night, net of this, but of another world 
comes. Through the night that long is to seem, and all of tlie things 
tliat 1 am to find in it, I am to pass. Will my soul out of the dregs 
of that cup, too begin, when you will have begun to, upward to rise 

There then came the night; and himself rising, — soon after its be- 
ginning, — above his motionless bod-*'- was; and looking- down upon it. a 
voice coming out of himself, to it said: "And now you are dead". Mo- 
tionless and at rest, became suddenly, then, all things about him. And 
under a gigantic calm, far and near, rested the whole of nature's 
forces. Aw^aiting then its stir, strengthening himself, for what he knew 
was to come, and for the motion, that out of the motionless w^ould first 
begin to show him all that was to come upon him, he, — knowing that 
he- had to be, — at rest, watched. Watching, out of what he looked on, 
he perceived: That there can be found, by the one who has accjuired the 
inclination to search for, in order to find it, in the midst of every one of 
nature's movements, — merc^^ This can all of those who have among men, 
in number, friends least; may all of those who go -where others will care 
least to follow; beyond all other kinds of help, help most. 

DowMi, as soon as this knowded,ge had been given to him, out of the 
heavens above, with a roar, came what seemed to be a thousand storms 
that shook the eartli when they struck it. About him whirled they; and 
out of them, at him struck all of the forces of nature, intelligent to de- 
stroy, to which have been given the oower to rend apart, if they can the 
attached portions of the souls of ;nen, and bear the sundered parts to 
the lower air. there to destroy them. .But that one in him that the 
intelligent forces of nature had seen to be the thing in him worth 
saving, had proved to be for him. Iiis protection throughout the whole 
of their first onslaught; saving him from that state tliat might have be- 
come his; the state of a soul that selfishness, on earth can prepare such 
a soul to ready for; the state of one to be lost. 

The storms that uoon, and about him rushed, seemed to be with- 
drawing. And then, beginning vaguely to see some of the things of that 
world, that everlasting are, of which the things of this earth are but 
shadows, in physical shape destined every one of them to dissolve; he 
by a voice from what he saw not, was told that back of him there vyas 
one of them. He turned to find that, the mercy of which, to save him- 
self, from the destruction that otherwise would have come to him, he had 
had quickly to be taught; that -which in his boyhood he had practiced, 
having new enabled him to comprehend tliat which alone would give to 
him protection; was, as a mountain at his back; a gigantic rock, to 
which, facing it now, for a moment, he clung; that stood in the midst 
of a vast; a space-ending; a star dissolving; a world-absorbing ocean, 
(^ver its billows rolled something, by which the -waters of the oceans of 
earth, and their billows, are from continent to continent driven. About 
liim a thousand other things had come. Things saw he, that could 
others have helped, but might not him. And among those hosts of 
things that others might have helped was there not, nor anywhere, as he 
i-iow knew, any one of those things that upon earth he daily had 
considered to be his strength; and had made use of, as instruments, 
with which to defeat others in their ailfairs, and in accomplishment for 
himself, pass beyond the accomplishment of many of his fellows. 

Alone, as must every man that dies, go, — into the darkness he 
had gone. Rut, as about him the destroying intelligences continued 
ever more compactly to gather, and his soul with their forces pierce; 



more of that world into which he had been taken, was he becoming 
able to become aware of; until, ahead of him, and out of and beyond 
all of its night, could he see far away at last its greater harbor, 
where t);ather together the waters that have been stilled; and stretching 
from within it, and beyond, its vast and wide city resplendent. But 
though now within him had come a deathless longing to, into it at this 
time was he not to be permitted to pass. For the fourth hour of a new 
day to the earth had come; and soon after, beginning to rise up over 
it could he see the great sun of the world from which for a time the 
soul that was his had severed. Something within it yet, however, was 
there that still to it belonged. Something that, by the light of that sun, 
could be taken hold of, and by it, to its earth be drawn back. So to 
him, was the sun that causes massive figures of rock on earth to 
sound now saying: "From you tomb call I you, facing me, ,to 
come forth, with your soul that has now been prepared within the 
highest air to henceforth move, upon my face to look. Where has 
been planted the purple Escholzia; Where have been planted the palms, 
each time victorious over death, that time after time towards me out 
of their bodies have risen up, — from your sepulchre arise now, and out 
into my garden come. For the whole of the work of a life time on 
earth, have you, not through time that otherwise would have seemed 
endless, within one night, in a world that was not of it, been able 
to undo. Age apart from age, are there men who through sudden 
changes passing, out of death, can be enabled to come back to life. Ages 
ago found I one. Ages have passed during which, I've been waiting to 
find in you, another." 

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